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Relative Clauses - Coggle Diagram
Relative Clauses
Who/That/Whom= Davis is the professor who/that teaches buisness ethics
Where= Is this the hotel where the conference took place?
Why
Wich= The documentary that wich we watched was about migrant workers
When= I remember the day when we graduated from high school
Whose= The workers whos wages were cut staged a strike
Defining relative clauses
We used to give essential information about a person, thing, animal, place, etc.
Participle clauses
We use this to make shorter the sentence
Non- defending relative clauses
To give extra information about a person, animal, thing, place, etc.
Prepositions relative clauses
Usually come at the end of the relative clause
Reduce relative clauses
Sometimes can be reduce if they modify the subject of a sentence
In negative phrases
Be no+ that= It is not a aecret that Jniece is a strict vegan
Be no use + ing= It is no use trying to stop me. I have made up my mind
Be no longer+ full infinitive= It is not longer possible to find parkinf downtown
in negative phraseses
There is no choice but to start over.
+full infinitive.
+ing= There was no problem driving to work thid morning.
if/whether= +wh-cluse= There is no knowing if we´ll get caught in a storm.
+wh-cluse= There is no knowing what the weather will be like..
To describe our impressions
seems as if= it seeems as if i have been dieting for months!
seems as thought= It seems as thought i have fianially lost some weight.
To talk about probability
looks as if= it looks as if Noel has been working
Looks as though= It looks as a though I have finally lost some weight
Commom expressions with there and it
To express certainity and possibility.
There are likely to be hundreds of people at the beach.
+to be